SCANDAL: Two Barcelona players accused of racism

The players involved in this scandal are: Ousmane Dembéle and Antonie Griezmann, both have been accused of being racists after the filtering of a video, recorded by Dembéle himself, where the players could be seen and heard making derogatory comments to the Asian operators of a hotel.

Dembéle, I recorded a video for Snapchat, where he shows some Asian workers from the hotel where they were staying. The operators were fixing their game console, meanwhile the following comments were heard “All these ugly faces just so you can play PES, aren’t you ashamed?”, which followed “What kind of language is that?”. All this scandal happened in 2019.

The forward of the French team, Griezmann has come out to speak about this video, the Barcelona player expressed the following: “I have always been committed against any form of discrimination. During the last days, some people have wanted to pass me off as the man who I am not. I firmly reject the accusations that have been made to me and I regret having been able to offend my Japanese friends, “the Frenchman posted on Twitter.

On the other hand, Dembéle, also came out to publicly apologize for the aberrant facts, “During the last days, a private video dating from 2019 has circulated on social networks. The scene takes place in Japan, but it could have developed anywhere on the planet, I would have used the same expressions. These expressions were not directed towards any specific community. Sometimes I use these types of expressions in private, with friends, regardless of their origin. Now this video has been released, and I understand that it may hurt the people in the images. In fact, I offer my sincerest apologies. “

Both players are currently in the eye of the storm, their sayings back in 2019 are highly repudiable and the apologies are now worth very little. At the moment, Barcelona has not made any official statement on the facts and even less on whether there will be any sanction on the players.

The Spanish and French federations also, so far, ignored the fact.

The two players were present at Euro 2020, Dembéle, played very little due to a serious injury, instead his teammate Griezmann played until his team was eliminated on penalties by Switzerland in the round of 16.

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